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Rwandan genocide: the long-term effects of war rape in Rwanda for the victims include social isolation, social stigma attached to rape meant some husbands left wives who had become victims of war rape, or that the victims were rendered unsuitable for marriage, unwanted pregnancies and babies, sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis, gonorrhoea and HIV/AIDS.